At 12:07 PM -0500 9/26/99, Pierre Moret wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to populate a temporary table 'Object_in', and then replace
>table 'Object' with Object_in. Both tables have the same structure.
>
>What I'm currently doing is following:
>
>1. # lock the _in table
>"LOCK TABLES Object_in WRITE"
>
>2. # insert the objects
>a bunch of "INSERT LOW_PRIORITY INTO Object_in VALUES ..." are executed
>
>3. # lock all tables
>"LOCK TABLES Object_in WRITE, Object WRITE"
>
>4. # delete 'real' table
>"DELETE FROM Object"
>
>5. # populate the 'real' table
>"INSERT INTO Object SELECT <list of fields> FROM Object_in"
>
>6. # unlock all tables
>"UNLOCK TABLES"
>
>7. # optimizing table
>"OPTIMIZE TABLE Object"
>
>
>Is there a better way to achieve the same result? Table 'Object' has to
>be available as much as possible.
Or drop the original table, then use ALTER TABLE to rename the new
one to the original name.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
